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Fracking boss faces growing tremors of resistance from public, press and Torieshttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/aug/07/fracking-boss-tremors-resistance-public-tory-mps
With plans to drill in West Sussex, Cuadrilla CEO Francis Egan has received death threats and an offer to frack his garden<p>He knew it would be a tough job when he took it on last year, but Francis Egan, chief executive of fracking firm Cuadrilla Resources, could not have imagined the role would bring with it death threats and reporters turning up at his house trying to "frack" his garden.</p><p>Environmentalists have been campaigning against fracking for years, but Egan's attempt to drill in the pretty West Sussex village of Balcombe has turned hydraulic fracturing (to give it is proper name) into a highly emotive subject that has galvanised opinions across the political and environmental spectrum and threatens to align some of the highest ranking members of the Tory party with a new generation of eco-warriors.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/aug/07/fracking-boss-tremors-resistance-public-tory-mps">Continue reading...</a>Oil and gas companiesFrackingEnergyFossil fuelsGasEnvironmentShale oilOilOilEnergy industryBusinessEarthquakesUK newsConservativesPoliticsFriends of the EarthProtestWed, 07 Aug 2013 17:44:31 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/aug/07/fracking-boss-tremors-resistance-public-tory-mpsPhotograph: Heathcliff O'Malley/Rex FeaturesFrancis Egan, CEO of Cuadrilla Resources has faced death threats and massive resistance against plans to drill in Balcolmbe in West Sussex. Photograph: Heathcliff O'Malley/Rex FeaturesPhotograph: Heathcliff O'Malley/Rex FeaturesFrancis Egan, CEO of Cuadrilla Resources has faced death threats and massive resistance against plans to drill in Balcolmbe in West Sussex. Photograph: Heathcliff O'Malley/Rex FeaturesRupert Neate2013-08-07T17:44:31ZOwen Paterson: true blue countryman putting wind up green campaignershttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/oct/11/owen-paterson-environment-guardian-profile
New environment secretary's views on fracking, runways and windfarms fuel accusations he is a climate change sceptic<p>The little orphaned badgers Bessie and Baz, one-time pets of the new environment secretary, Owen Paterson, are enjoying a surprising posthumous fame thanks to his new role overseeing the imminent cull in England, which could result in a third of the population being shot dead. "I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in," Paterson reminisced in 2004. "So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained, she went in the car. Then we had another badger and as soon as they got together they dug their way out and ran away. It is terribly hard when welfare people see me as anti-badger, having known a badger very well."</p><p>Yet Paterson is standing <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/17/first-badger-cull-licence-england?newsfeed=true" title="">resolutely behind the cull</a>, dismissing opposition as "sad sentimentality" at this week's Conservative party conference. It is an issue he knows well having tabled a record 600 parliamentary questions on the problem of TB in cattle while shadow environment minister. That barrage is typical of the man, say those who know him, pointing to similar deep dives by Paterson into fisheries, roads and Northern Ireland. "He is very committed, very diligent, thorough and good on detail and he is incredibly energetic," said Jacob Rees-Mogg, Conservative MP and a fellow member of the rightwing <a href="http://cornerstone-group.org.uk/" title="">Cornerstone group</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/oct/11/owen-paterson-environment-guardian-profile">Continue reading...</a>Owen PatersonPoliticsWind powerEnergyRenewable energyEnvironmentConservativesUK newsEnergy industryBusinessThu, 11 Oct 2012 19:28:18 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/oct/11/owen-paterson-environment-guardian-profilePhotograph: Peter Morrison/AP/GNM ImagingOwen Paterson, the new secretary of state for the environment – from badger-lover to badger-culler? Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP/GNM ImagingPhotograph: Peter Morrison/AP/GNM ImagingOwen Paterson, the new secretary of state for the environment – from badger-lover to badger-culler? Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP/GNM ImagingDamian Carrington2012-10-11T19:28:18Z